user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/netdevice.h, branch v3.17

net: treewide: Fix typo found in DocBook/networking.xml

2014-09-06T00:35:28Z

This patch fix spelling typo found in DocBook/networking.xml. It is because the neworking.xml is generated from comments in the source, I have to fix typo in comments within the source. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: kernel-doc compliant documentation for net_device

2014-08-01T04:34:20Z

Net_device is a vast and important structure, but it has no kernel-doc compliant documentation. This patch extracts the comments from the structure to clean it up, and let the scripts extract documentation from it. I know that the patch is big, but it's just reordering of comments into the appropriate form, and adding a few more, for the missing members. Signed-off-by: Karoly Kemeny Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: print net_device reg_state in netdev_* unless it's registered

2014-07-21T03:38:43Z

This way we'll always know in what status the device is, unless it's running normally (i.e. NETDEV_REGISTERED). Also, emit a warning once in case of a bad reg_state. CC: "David S. Miller" CC: Jason Baron CC: Eric Dumazet CC: Vlad Yasevich CC: stephen hemminger CC: Jerry Chu CC: Ben Hutchings CC: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: use dev->name in netdev_pr* when it's available

2014-07-21T03:38:42Z

netdev_name() returns dev->name only when the net_device is in NETREG_REGISTERED state. However, dev->name is always populated on creation, so we can easily use it. There are two cases when there's no real name - when it's an empty string or when the name is in form of "eth%d", then netdev_name() returns "unnamed net_device". CC: "David S. Miller" CC: Tom Gundersen Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico Acked-by: Tom Gundersen Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: set name_assign_type in alloc_netdev()

2014-07-15T23:12:48Z

Extend alloc_netdev{,_mq{,s}}() to take name_assign_type as argument, and convert all users to pass NET_NAME_UNKNOWN. Coccinelle patch: @@ expression sizeof_priv, name, setup, txqs, rxqs, count; @@ ( -alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof_priv, name, setup, txqs, rxqs) +alloc_netdev_mqs(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup, txqs, rxqs) | -alloc_netdev_mq(sizeof_priv, name, setup, count) +alloc_netdev_mq(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup, count) | -alloc_netdev(sizeof_priv, name, setup) +alloc_netdev(sizeof_priv, name, NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, setup) ) v9: move comments here from the wrong commit Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen Reviewed-by: David Herrmann Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: add name_assign_type netdev attribute

2014-07-15T23:12:01Z

Based on a patch by David Herrmann. The name_assign_type attribute gives hints where the interface name of a given net-device comes from. These values are currently defined: NET_NAME_ENUM: The ifname is provided by the kernel with an enumerated suffix, typically based on order of discovery. Names may be reused and unpredictable. NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE: The ifname has been assigned by the kernel in a predictable way that is guaranteed to avoid reuse and always be the same for a given device. Examples include statically created devices like the loopback device and names deduced from hardware properties (including being given explicitly by the firmware). Names depending on the order of discovery, or in any other way on the existence of other devices, must not be marked as PREDICTABLE. NET_NAME_USER: The ifname was provided by user-space during net-device setup. NET_NAME_RENAMED: The net-device has been renamed from userspace. Once this type is set, it cannot change again. NET_NAME_UNKNOWN: This is an internal placeholder to indicate that we yet haven't yet categorized the name. It will not be exposed to userspace, rather -EINVAL is returned. The aim of these patches is to improve user-space renaming of interfaces. As a general rule, userspace must rename interfaces to guarantee that names stay the same every time a given piece of hardware appears (at boot, or when attaching it). However, there are several situations where userspace should not perform the renaming, and that depends on both the policy of the local admin, but crucially also on the nature of the current interface name. If an interface was created in repsonse to a userspace request, and userspace already provided a name, we most probably want to leave that name alone. The main instance of this is wifi-P2P devices created over nl80211, which currently have a long-standing bug where they are getting renamed by udev. We label such names NET_NAME_USER. If an interface, unbeknown to us, has already been renamed from userspace, we most probably want to leave also that alone. This will typically happen when third-party plugins (for instance to udev, but the interface is generic so could be from anywhere) renames the interface without informing udev about it. A typical situation is when you switch root from an installer or an initrd to the real system and the new instance of udev does not know what happened before the switch. These types of problems have caused repeated issues in the past. To solve this, once an interface has been renamed, its name is labelled NET_NAME_RENAMED. In many cases, the kernel is actually able to name interfaces in such a way that there is no need for userspace to rename them. This is the case when the enumeration order of devices, or in fact any other (non-parent) device on the system, can not influence the name of the interface. Examples include statically created devices, or any naming schemes based on hardware properties of the interface. In this case the admin may prefer to use the kernel-provided names, and to make that possible we label such names NET_NAME_PREDICTABLE. We want the kernel to have tho possibilty of performing predictable interface naming itself (and exposing to userspace that it has), as the information necessary for a proper naming scheme for a certain class of devices may not be exposed to userspace. The case where renaming is almost certainly desired, is when the kernel has given the interface a name using global device enumeration based on order of discovery (ethX, wlanY, etc). These naming schemes are labelled NET_NAME_ENUM. Lastly, a fallback is left as NET_NAME_UNKNOWN, to indicate that a driver has not yet been ported. This is mostly useful as a transitionary measure, allowing us to label the various naming schemes bit by bit. v8: minor documentation fixes v9: move comment to the right commit Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen Reviewed-by: David Herrmann Reviewed-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

bridge: fdb dumping takes a filter device

2014-07-10T19:37:33Z

Dumping a bridge fdb dumps every fdb entry held. With this change we are going to filter on selected bridge port. Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Call skb_get_hash in get_xps_queue and __skb_tx_hash

2014-07-08T04:14:21Z

Call standard function to get a packet hash instead of taking this from skb->sk->sk_hash or only using skb->protocol. Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Fix GSO constants to match NETIF flags

2014-06-15T08:00:49Z

Joseph Gasparakis reported that VXLAN GSO offload stopped working with i40e device after recent UDP changes. The problem is that the SKB_GSO_* bits are out of sync with the corresponding NETIF flags. This patch fixes that. Also, we add BUILD_BUG_ONs in net_gso_ok for several GSO constants that were missing to avoid the problem in the future. Reported-by: Joseph Gasparakis Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2014-06-12T21:27:40Z

Pull networking updates from David Miller: 1) Seccomp BPF filters can now be JIT'd, from Alexei Starovoitov. 2) Multiqueue support in xen-netback and xen-netfront, from Andrew J Benniston. 3) Allow tweaking of aggregation settings in cdc_ncm driver, from Bjørn Mork. 4) BPF now has a "random" opcode, from Chema Gonzalez. 5) Add more BPF documentation and improve test framework, from Daniel Borkmann. 6) Support TCP fastopen over ipv6, from Daniel Lee. 7) Add software TSO helper functions and use them to support software TSO in mvneta and mv643xx_eth drivers. From Ezequiel Garcia. 8) Support software TSO in fec driver too, from Nimrod Andy. 9) Add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT driver, from Florian Fainelli. 10) Handle broadcasts more gracefully over macvlan when there are large numbers of interfaces configured, from Herbert Xu. 11) Allow more control over fwmark used for non-socket based responses, from Lorenzo Colitti. 12) Do TCP congestion window limiting based upon measurements, from Neal Cardwell. 13) Support busy polling in SCTP, from Neal Horman. 14) Allow RSS key to be configured via ethtool, from Venkata Duvvuru. 15) Bridge promisc mode handling improvements from Vlad Yasevich. 16) Don't use inetpeer entries to implement ID generation any more, it performs poorly, from Eric Dumazet. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1522 commits) rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2 < v3.9.0 tcp: fixing TLP's FIN recovery net: fec: Add software TSO support net: fec: Add Scatter/gather support net: fec: Increase buffer descriptor entry number net: fec: Factorize feature setting net: fec: Enable IP header hardware checksum net: fec: Factorize the .xmit transmit function bridge: fix compile error when compiling without IPv6 support bridge: fix smatch warning / potential null pointer dereference via-rhine: fix full-duplex with autoneg disable bnx2x: Enlarge the dorq threshold for VFs bnx2x: Check for UNDI in uncommon branch bnx2x: Fix 1G-baseT link bnx2x: Fix link for KR with swapped polarity lane sctp: Fix sk_ack_backlog wrap-around problem net/core: Add VF link state control policy net/fsl: xgmac_mdio is dependent on OF_MDIO net/fsl: Make xgmac_mdio read error message useful net_sched: drr: warn when qdisc is not work conserving ...